Guest speaker Valerie O’Krent
will talk to students, staff and faculty about elements of leadership
in Room 205 of University Hall
today from 12-1 p.m.
O’Krent will be asking audience members questions like,
“So, what do you ‘see’ when you
hear the word leadership? And,
what does/should leadership look
like?”
O’Krent has a master’s degree
in child and adolescent studies
and secondary education.
For more information contact Sue Passalacqua at 714-2783651. There are 40 registration
spaces available for this event.

‘Ignorance’ proves fun
and hilarious for readers
(MCT) – A word to
those students who forget
to read over their papers before submission: you are being watched. Or maybe just
chronicled.
But in “Ignorance is Blitz:
Mangled Moments of History from Actual College Students,” compiled and edited
by Anders Henriksson, the
reader benefits from these
students’ lack of knowledge.
A mix of errors and made-up
facts from real college students’ essays, this little book
is laugh-out-loud hilarious.
It provides a short history
of the world, from the Stoned
Age to the fall of the Berlin
Mall. It is filled with bad cliches (historians and others attempt to pin the tail on the
reluctant monkey of change),
creative spelling (liberals insisted on a lily fair economy,
where it was hands off the
lily) and a general ignorance
(Christianity was just another
mystery cult until Jesus was
born).
Author Anders Henriksson has said the book is a
compilation from 30 years of
teaching at a college in West
Virginia, plus submissions
from a few professors at other
universities. In a postscript,
he attributes these “mangled
moments” to deadline pressure and an overreliance on
spell-check.

On a cloudy day in Carson, thousands of Republican supporters
with umbrellas in hand gathered at
the Home Depot Center to catch
a glimpse of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. There
was a buzz in the air as supporters
gathered up to an hour before doors
opened to the event.
For many, it was their first look at
the former mayor from Wasilla, and
it was Palin’s first look at them. With
California being historically Democratic, past GOP candidates have
skipped over the Golden State to focus on key battleground states.
Palin declared in front of the fervent crowd of supporters that California was “still Reagan country,”
and warned that her opponents
should think twice before assuming
California was in their pocket this
election.
“I like Sarah because she is an
unashamed conservative, and that’s
what I am,” Nicholas Romero, a
CSUF alumnus, said. “I don’t consider the Bush administration conservative. We believe in limited government and he has built the biggest
bureaucracy since FDR.”
Palin has brought much-needed
star power to the Republican ticket.
Part of the draw, supporters say,
is her ability to relate to everyday

I am tired of stupid ‘C’students running the country. I
want someone with an IQ bigger
than their shoe size.
– Julie Ball,
Long Beach resident
(Not pictured)

“

WEATHER

“

“

This reporter is doing a great
job covering her story. That is
until she loses her balance and
faceplants onto the grass beneath
her.
The audio may be funnier than
the video footage. Try closing
your eyes when watching this.

We need change. Can’t
have an archaic form of government for four more years. Sarah
Palin scares me.
– Todd Clarke,
Laguna Beach resident
(Not pictured)

Americans.
“I consider her a renaissance
woman. She’s a working mom with
five kids, one of which is serving in
Iraq. I think everyone can see a little
bit of Sarah Palin in them,” Romero
said.
The excitement of the crowd was
contrasted by a protest held by Barack Obama supporters.
“You can say anything in a speech,”
Tanti Loa, an Obama supporter,
said. “The fact is there are still many
questions, like the report of rape
victims having to pay for their own
rape kit while she was mayor, the
Troopergate scandal while she was
governor and the banning of books
while she was mayor – just to name
a few – that need to be answered and
fact checked,” Loa said.
A group of guest speakers, highlighted by Oscar-nominated actor
Jon Voight, fired up the crowd before
Palin spoke. Voight spoke fondly of
Sen. John McCain and Gov. Palin,
but had harsher words for the members of the media.
“The media was a great negative
force in trying to destroy her (Palin),” he said, as the crowd booed
loudly.
Palin was introduced by Shelly
Mandell, president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). The
organization has publicly endorsed
Barack Obama.
“There are a lot of issues Sarah
and I don’t agree on. But just like
she said she’ll press John McCain on
ANWR, I will press her on some of
those issues,” Mandell said.
Palin opened her speech with a
quote from her Starbucks cup. The
quote was from former Secretary
of State Madeline Albright, a fact
that was also booed by the raucous
crowd.
“’There’s a place in hell reserved
for women who don’t support other
women,’” she said. “Let’s see how
that comment is turned into whatever it’s turned into in tomorrow’s
papers.”
She immediately went on the offensive against her Democratic rivals and stepped up her attacks on
Democratic presidential nominee
Barack Obama. While commenting
on the new fascination with what
she is reading, Palin slipped in a jab
at Obama.
“Well, I was reading a copy of
today’s New York Times and I was
interested to read about Barack’s
friends from Chicago,” Palin said.
“Turns out one of Barack’s earliest
supporters is a man who, according
to The New York Times, and they
are hardly ever wrong, was a domestic terrorist and part of a group
that, quote, launched a campaign of
bombings that would target the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.”
She was referring to William
Ayers, an anti-Vietnam War activist who founded the radical group
The Weathermen in 1969. Federal
charges against Ayers were dropped
in 1974 due to illegal wiretaps, according to the same Times article.
The article points out that since
earning a doctorate degree from Columbia University, Ayers has gone
on to teach education at the University of Illinois, authored or edited 15
books, and is an advocate of school
reform.
Obama’s first contact with
See PALIN, Page 2

By Kristy Harris/For The Daily Titan
Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin speaks to an estimated crowd of
15,000-20,000 at the Home Depot Center in Carson on Saturday.

Pro-Palin
voters
speak

“

There are a lot of issues
Sarah and I don’t agree on. But
just like she said she’ll press John
McCain on ANWR, I will press
her on some of those issues.

Communication students and professionals
gathered to speak about new opportunities for
bilingual journalists at the second annual Orange County Spanish Journalism Conference
Friday.
The event, which took place in the Portola
Pavilion of Cal State Fullerton’s Titan Student
Union, was organized by the Society of Professional Journalism in collaboration with Iris
Preciado from CSUF Public Affairs, as well as

members of Casa Guanajuato and Yanga Veracruz Foundation.
State Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, participated in the opening ceremony. The conference was conducted in Spanish and focused
on multicultural journalism.
According to Telemundo Reporter Martin
Plascencia, bilingual journalists are in demand
and have a responsibility to inform the Hispanic market on issues concerning immigration, education and consumer information.
Plascencia encourages students to improve
See BILINGUAL JOURNALISTS, Page 2

By Allison Griggs

Daily Titan Staff Writer
new@dailytitan.com

This election season’s first and only vice
presidential debate left the words “change” and
“maverick” echoing in the ears of viewers at a
live airing in the Titan Student Union Pavilion
C, Thursday.
The crowd of students and faculty watched
the political rivals debate on a large screen projected above the stage. A panel of Cal State
Fullerton faculty and students sat in to watch
the debate, discuss it’s outcome and answer

questions following the debate. Afterwards,
the panelists, apparently rivals at times as well,
discussed the performance of the nation’s potential vice presidents.
History major Jason Bensley and CSUF
professors Renae Bredin of women’s studies,
Stephen Stambough of political science, and
Jack Bedell of sociology, made up the night’s
panel of speakers.
The debate between vice presidential candidates Sen. Joe Biden and Alaskan Gov. Sarah
Palin was scheduled to discuss the debate’s
See VP DEBATES, Page 2

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October 6, 2008

IN OTHER NEWS debate: asi hosts vp debate viewing
INTERNATIONAL

11 Iraqis killed in U.S. raid in Mosul

BAGHDAD (MCT) – Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed
Sunday during a U.S. raid in Mosul, including three women and three children, officials said.
Neighbors told Iraqi police in Mosul that the family was peaceful, but the
U.S. military said five of the dead were terrorists who had targeted American
soldiers.
A military spokesman said at least some of the Iraqis were killed when a
member of the family detonated a suicide bomb inside the house the Americans were raiding. It’s unclear whether gunfire from U.S. soldiers is responsible for some deaths, Navy Lt. Cmdr. David Russell said.
“At this point we’re still working with the hospital to try to sort that out,”
he said.
A police spokesman in Mosul, Brig. Gen. Khalid Abdulsatar, said most of
the dead appeared to have been killed by shrapnel from a bomb.
No U.S. soldiers were reported killed or injured.
Seven other Iraqis died in two additional incidents of violence in Mosul
this weekend.
According to a military statement, American soldiers were in the northern
Iraq city Sunday morning looking for a wanted terrorist.

NATIONAL

Wachovia says order doesn’t affect Wells deal

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (MCT) – Wachovia Corp. said Sunday it does not
believe an order by a state supreme court judge in New York has “any effect
on the validity” of a merger agreement between the Charlotte bank and Wells
Fargo & Co.
The $15 billion Wachovia-Wells deal announced Friday upset a transaction
brokered Monday that would have sold most of Wachovia to New York-based
Citigroup Inc., with help from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Citi fought back Saturday by getting New York State Supreme Court Judge
Charles Ramos to grant an emergency injunction that extends an “exclusivity
agreement” that Citi argues prevents Wachovia from negotiating or entering
into a merger agreement with any party other than Citi.
Wachovia, however, said it “continues to believe its agreement with Wells
Fargo, which involves no government assistance, is proper and valid,” adding:
“The agreement is in the best interests of shareholders, employees, creditors
and retirees as well as the American taxpayers and it imposes no risk to the
FDIC fund.”

STATE

Web site domains in names of politicians

SACRAMENTO (MCT) – A Rocklin, Calif., man who claimed dozens
of Web site domains in the names of local politicians says he won’t budge
until they’re ousted from office.
Joseph Scharrer, owner of a research and development company, registered the domains through GoDaddy.com and is using elected officials’ own
names against them.
He targeted those who he believes opposed a new charter high school, including the Rocklin Area Chamber of Commerce, City Council incumbents
and Rocklin Unified School District trustees.
“I’m against anybody who’s against charter schools,” said Scharrer, who
serves on the planning team for a proposed college-prep charter school,
Western Sierra Collegiate Academy. “I’m hoping if I tear down the existing
incumbents, useful people will be elected to office and make good decisions
for the people they represent.”

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From Page 1
focus on domestic and foreign
policies, which quickly led into
other areas. The current state of the
economy and potential energy policies were also discussion topics at the
St. Louis, debate.
The slogan “change” was originally a focus of Sen. Barack Obama’s
campaign efforts. The idea has since
become a constant that both parties
target. The word was used by both
vice presidential candidates repeatedly throughout the night.
Palin jumped on board with Sen.
John McCain’s media title of “maverick” and took it a step farther in
deeming the two of them a “team of
mavericks.” The term describes nonconformists or reformers. Biden was
quick to argue that McCain has been
no maverick on the issues that matter to people’s lives.
There was a good turnout for the
second in a series of four debates being aired on campus by CSUF’s Associated Students, Inc. and Lobby
Corps. The two groups are aiming at
encouraging students to get involved

with the upcoming election. Providing pizza, chips, drinks, and raffling
an iPod helped to bring in students
who may not otherwise have been
quite so interested.
A patriotic Tuffy the Titan in a
red, white and blue hat was at the
center of the stage, separating moderator Leo Otero, ASI chief governmental officer, from the discussion
panel table.
The panel said their consensus
seemed to be that Biden did well,
and Palin did better than anticipated.
“Expectations were low,” Bredin
said. “She exceeded expectations.”
The panel did not agree on everything, though, and some of their
responses left the audience wondering. More often than anything, the
panelists responses left the audience
laughing at the expense of one of the
candidates – usually Palin.
One crowd member asked “Who
did a better job of actually answering
the questions asked?”
After the panel finished laughing
at the question, they responded.
Stambough said Biden answered
the questions more directly. He said

that only five minutes into the debate Palin admitted that she would
not be directly answering the questions. She was there to give a speech
and she was going to make sure she
did just that.
Many of the CSUF viewers argued that the debate was not heated
enough. The panel even admitted
that it was a little boring.
“It was a little too civil for my
liking. It was just too nice,” Otero
said.
Bredin agreed she would have
liked to see a little more to the debate. While Bedell pointed out that
the debate was controlled by format,
Bredin was still not convinced.
“I felt like I was at a beauty pageant. There were times when I really
just wanted more substance,” Bredin
said. “And what was with her (Palin)
winking at the audience?”
The only woman on the panel,
Bredin said that despite her blatant
disapproval of McCain’s decision to
make Palin his running mate, it is
necessary for Palin to conduct herself appropriately.
“It’s been so hard to get where we
(women) are now, it’s very impor-

tant that she be professional. I think
for the most part she did a very good
job of that. She was very articulate,”
Bredin said.
But she was quick to point out
again that Palin’s winking was not
necessary or professional.
Mario Orozco, a 21-year-old anthropology student, said he was unexpectedly pleased by the candidates
throughout the debate.
“Both candidates seem wellprepared for the upcoming responsibility. They both held their own,”
Orozco said. “I expected to see Palin
get torn up, but she handled herself
pretty well.”
The Biden versus Palin debate has
since been deemed the most watched
VP debate in television history according to Bloomberg.com, citing
Nielsen ratings. The vice presidential
hopefuls reached almost 70 million
viewers while the Obama vs. McCain presidential debate only tallied
52.4 million.
The second Presidential Debate
will be held at 6:00 pm next Tuesday
in TSU Pavilion C. The night’s focus
is scheduled to cover issues raised by
audience members in Town Hall.

Palin: touts mccain’s position on taxes
From Page 1
Ayers was 26 years later in Chicago at a meeting about school reform, the Times article said. Ayers
was already a professor at the University of Illinois.
The Obama campaign has said
the relationship is exaggerated by
opponents in an attempt to smear

his reputation.
Palin failed to mention that
many media outlets, including the
Times, have acknowledged that records show Obama and Ayers did
not have a very close relationship.
Their interactions were limited
to school reform projects during
Obama’s first run at office and sporadic encounters as neighbors in

Chicago.
She also reiterated what she said
in last Thursday’s debates that Barack Obama “is going to raise your
taxes … he voted 94 times to raise
taxes.”
The rest of Palin’s speech contained much of the same rhetoric
that she has used on the campaign
trail. She called John McCain the

true advocate of change and the
only one of the candidates who has
actually fought for the American
people.
“In politics there are candidates
who use change to promote their
careers,” Palin said to a cheering
crowd. “And some, like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.”

bilingual journalist: helping students
From Page 1
their Spanish writing skills by
reading novels written by Carlos Fuentes or watching cultural programs
on Spanish language TV. He also
recommends students gain experience in local or small town stations
prior to applying for Telemundo or
Univision, the two largest Spanish
language TV networks in the nation.
The presenters showed an array
of opportunities for the bilingual
journalist in the Spanish language
market. Lilian de la Torre-Jimenez,
editor and owner of Bodas USA
magazine, said that changes in demographics and technology are
opening new doors for the bilingual
students. Latina magazine and Hispanic Business magazine are English-language publications that cater
to the bilingual generation and the
Hispanic community.
“I’m seeing a drastic change, of
course, in demographics, but in the
Hispanic media. There are many bilingual publications that are opening up; newspapers, magazines,
bilingual radio,” Torre-Jimenenez
said. “There are opportunities for
journalists that are bilingual. Not
only in Spanish publications, but
in English publications that cater to
the Hispanics.”
Patricia Garcia, director of advertisement agency Power Media
Group, said that the buying power
of Hispanics in California has been
on the rise since 1990. It is currently
at $244 billion and is expected to
increase to $322 billion by 2012,
according to data provided by the
Selig Center For Economic Growth.
According to Garcia, the bilingual
student not only can seek jobs in
print or broadcast news, but in other fields like the marketing sector.
Garcia graduated in public relations and funded Power Media
Group, Inc. from her family room.
Garcia received the LBA Sol Award
for Business of the Year in 2008 and
has also received several government
recognitions throughout the years.
America Arias, president of the
Society of Professional Journalists
(SPJ) at CSUF, is concerned that
the younger generation is losing its

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language. She helped organized the
conference as a way to give back to
the students and to prepare them for
the promising future.
“It is great that the population
is growing, but if we are losing our

pride and we are losing our language, we our losing our identity,”
Arias said. “This is how powerful
Spanish media really is. This is how
powerful you can be if you reach out
and inform the public, and I think if

we bring that back to the youth, to
our own students here at Fullerton,
I feel like I’m contributing to making sure that the next generation,
the next big boom, is well informed
to inform the public.”

October 6, 2008

features

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Photo Essay: Ballet Folklorico in Quad

By Joe Von Regius/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
The Ballet Folklorico de CSUF organization held their first public performance in the
Quad on Thursday from 11a.m.-2p.m. The event was a fundraiser for costumes. Guest
performer Francisco Andrade captivates the crowd as the “Floreo de Riata,” which
means Mexican cowboy roper. His final trick for the performance was displaying his
roping skills as he spun a lasso around the dancers.

Aid program for CSUF students STAND UP in the TSU
features@dailytitan.com

Free groceries and clothing will
be distributed every Friday in October at UH 141. These items will be
given to Cal State Fullerton students
who are in need through the Extended Opportunity Program Student Association, a club of students
who are aided by CSUF Extended
Opportunity Program, and the Care
S.H.O.S. (Students Helping Other
Students) program.
This is the first year the program
is being implemented on the CSUF
campus. It is also a great opportunity
for any students and their family to
receive a helping hand, said Dameion
Renault, a human services major and
the program’s founder and coordinator. “We’re all students. We can all
share the resources that we have,”
said EOP Student Association president Adriana Cortes, 19, a political

“

We are all students. We can all
share the resources
that we have.

Renault eventually was able to
give up to $2,800 in clothing for
children and thousands of pounds
of food.
The Orange County Food Bank
sells food for 6 cents a pound to
nonprofit organizations like EOP,
which is a major benefit for the Care
S.H.O.S. program, according to Renault.
International business major
Diana Lira, 22, a senior, benefited
from the program. She said she was
encouraged by the availability of resources. “Sometimes, even as college
students, we think everyone comes
from similar backgrounds. But even
students have additional needs.
EOPS is doing something about it
which is awesome,” Lira said.
According to Cortes, over the past
year the EOP Student Association at
CSUF has established itself enough
to become the political and social association it aspires to be. Programs
like Care S.H.O.S. reinforce the
value of EOPS’s presence at CSUF,
Cortes said.
“We want to make sure that underrepresented students can have access to higher education and services
that help them stay in school, and
ultimately finish,” he said.

Zune player forum makes teen a fortune
SANTA ANA (MCT) – Young
entrepreneur Hansup Yoon, 15, recently sold his creation ZuneBoards,
an Internet forum devoted to Microsoft’s Zune media player, for
$62,000.
The teenager, who lives in Fullerton, created the site months before
Microsoft introduced its answer to
Apple’s iPod in 2006. “It was the
most perfect time to start a Web site
about Zune, and I was one of the first
few to create a Zune-related site,” he
said. Yoon built the site using the free
MyBBoard software, later shifting to
vBulletin and Joomla. In less than
two years, it grew to 60,000 members with more than 270,000 posts,

all about Zune. It has been making
about $1,000 a month from Google
Adsense and TribalFusion, both with
tools that place ads that are relevant
to a Web site’s visitors.
When he decided to sell, he posted
it on SitePoint.com and other sales
Web sites for a minimum of $30,000
or “Buy It Now” for $60,000. Two
bidders chose the latter option, and
crowdgather, a Woodland Hills,
company that has bought more than
70 message boards and forums as a
foundation for Internet advertising,
upped its bid to $62,000.
“Bidding was getting close to the
Buy It Now price, and I didn’t want
to lose (ZuneBoards) over a few

thousand dollars,” said crowdgather
founder Sanjay Sabnani.
Sabnani wasn’t surprised to learn
that his acquisition was created and
owned by a teenager.
“I’m getting more and more used
to that,” he said. “My first acquisition was a graphic site from someone in Italy. I was blown away when
I found out he was 16.”
Because Yoon is a minor, crowdgather negotiated with his parents,
and the deal closed in a day. They
used escrow.com, an Irvine site that
acts as a shield against fraud between
buyers and sellers of businesses,
Web sites and other ventures, Sabnani said. Yoon’s ability to build a
profitable site would be the envy of
older entrepreneurs. “At first I tried
to teach myself with books I would
buy from bookstores. ... However,
ultimately, I was mostly self-taught
from other Web development communities like Forums.DigitalPoint.
com, SitePoint.com and NamePros.
com,” Yoon said. “The Internet is an
amazing place. You can practically
learn anything you want if you’re

willing to make a time commitment.
“It is so easy to make money on the
Internet. Web development. Madefor-Adsense sites. Affiliate marketing. Paid to post. And the list goes
on,” Yoon said. “I guess that’s one
reason why I am so thankful to God.
Not everyone has the mentality and
understanding of how things work
online as I do.”
After he designed ZuneBoards,
he marketed it by exchanging posts
with other small forums. In a few
months, he had several volunteer
administrators and moderators who
made sure the forums were organized
and all posts obeyed the site’s rules.
He is a sophomore in high school
and plans to try out for the football team. Also, he wanted to give
some financial support to his family.
“Thirdly, I felt that I wasn’t doing
my best to really make ZuneBoards
grow to its full capabilities,” he added. “I felt a new ownership would
really bring in fresh leaders that were
really motivated and focused on the
growth of ZuneBoards.” He said he
will continue as a site administrator.

SCTA presents a multicultural diversity play
from Los Osos High
School

being judged for gang violence.
It also dealt with the students being afraid to speak their minds in the
classroom and defend themselves.
The next scene put students in
segregated lunch groups and had
them saying hurtful things about
By Crysania Salcido
Daily Titan Staff Writer
each other.
features@dailytitan.com
It showed the hypocrisy of students calling people their friends but
Every student has likely been ste- dishing out racial slurs the second
reotyped by either a teacher or peer they got with their “own” group.
The play ended with another
at least once in their life.
The feeling of being judged by poem that encouraged the audience
the color of your skin or your sexual in its last line to search out “the pospreference rather than the person sibility, the experience of each other”
you are can leave hurtful, lingering instead of marking each other with
color lines.
effects.
After the play, STAND UP enThose kind of issues are what Socially Together And Naturally Di- couraged audience members to voverse United Performers (STAND calize their opinions in a questionand-answer session.
UP) dealt with
The audience
in their play at
got to hear the
the Titan Student
high school stuUnion Theatre on
dents’ opinion of
Wednesday.
what they were
The event was
doing, and the
hosted by the Cal
high school stuState
Fullerton
dents as well as
chapter of the Stutheir adviser were
dent
California
more than willing
Teachers Associato share their extion and included
periences.
multiple perfor–
Sydney
Evans
,
“We want to
mances.
Performer
change people’s
“We
would
perception
of
hope to get the
everything. We
word out on campus to have everyone come together don’t want people to judge other
and see that diversity is an amazing people for what they are,” performer
thing, but only if you support it to Sydney Evans said.
The play was well-received by
its fullest,” SCTA chapter President
CSUF
students who attended, makKristina Hohmann said.
STAND UP is a group made up of ing them think about their own acstudents from Los Osos High School tions inside and outside of the classin Rancho Cucamonga who perform room.
First year teaching credential stumulticultural diversity plays.
Brian Jeffrey, STAND UP advis- dent Erin Bailey said she thought the
er, said at the beginning of the per- plays could be applied to students on
formance that the plays were based campus as well as the future teachers
on experiences the students have en- who will have to deal with these situcountered with racism and intoler- ations in their classrooms.
“To be able to come and hear
ance in the world around them.
“I thought it was really moving people’s real experiences, not just a
and powerful and brave of those stu- play, but testimonies of what people
dents to get up in front of their peers have experienced, it’s eye-opening.
and talk about such strong issues,” It makes us question our own prejuAmanda Powrie, a first-year teaching dices and how we act towards other
people,” Bailey said.
credential student, said.
The SCTA hopes to do more
The play began with a powerful poem that Jeffrey described as a events like STAND UP in order to
“cry and call for unity and diversity,” promote diversity for student teachthen moved into a play dealing with ers as well as other students on camsituations students encounter in the pus.
“Some of the subjects are really
classroom.
The scene dealt with issues such touchy and people can get sensitive
as teachers judging them based on about them, but I think everyone
stereotypes like Asians always doing can relate to it in some way,” Hohmtheir homework and Hispanic kids ann said.

“

We want to
change peoples’
perception of everything. We don’t want
people to judge other
people for what they
are.

“

By Sarah De mers

For the Daily Titan

science major.
a hard time speaking up and getting
The EOP program is distribut- help, that’s what this is about,” Reing donations that include adult nault said.
clothing, children’s toys, children’s
He originally began the program
clothes, beverages, canned goods, at Orange Coast College, where he
dry goods, and produce from the helped service “thousands of students
Orange County Food Bank.
who needed an extra something.”
Information will
As a student,
also be provided to
Renault received
connect students
counseling and fito living assistance
nancial assistance
programs that can
through Extended
help with utilities,
Opportunity Prorent, food, furnigrams and Serture and bus passvices at Orange
es. Salvation Army
– Adriana Cortes, Coast College,
Assistant Manager,
and was inspired
EOP President
Sylvia Ramirez, 48,
to do something
will volunteer every
for other students
Friday to give this information.
who need a helping hand. He had alDonations of food, clean cloth- ways been interested in missions and
ing, toys, books, or bedding made now he could incorporate the theme
by other students can be dropped off locally, he said.
in bins that say “Donation” or “Help
While Renault was able to obtain
Your Fellow Students.” The bins are the benefits of EOPS, he understood
located at the Pollack Library, Mc- that there was a financial cutoff point
Carthy Hall, Titan Student Union that left many middle-income stulounge, and the EOP office in the dents with needs without being able
Humanities Building.
to qualify for many of the assistance
Renault is implementing the pro- programs offered on campus.
gram on CSUF’s campus, after much
S.H.O.S is a bridge that he hopes
success at Orange Coast College.
hundred of students will take advan“If I can help someone who has tage of, Renault said.

“

Items such as food and
clean clothing may be
donated at bins around
campus.

‘Blacklisted’ gets voices heard
For decades, the black community of the U.S. has been the
subject of thousands of authors,
journalists and movie directors the
world over.
Whether it’s the fascination of
mainstream America or the struggle of black professionals to bind
together a roadmap of the culture’s roots, the question always
seems to be the same: “What is
it really like to be black in today’s
American society?”
Some media manage to do a
fair job of answering this question, and some are Fox News.
But in the wake of the slightly
watered-down CNN approach
to black culture in the “Black in
America” series, it seems relevant
to wonder if the voice of the mainstream media would ever find the
pitch to match the voice of a community that is historically viewed
as a mysterious minority group.
HBO did just that in an interview documentary created by
Timothy
Greenfield-Saunders
and Elvis Jones called “The Blacklist: Volume 1,” which originally
aired in August.
The premise of the documentary involved a full roster of
black icons and professionals who
ranged from performance artists to the CEO of Time Warner
Co., from unknown movers and
shakers to rappers and box office

celebrities.
Each had several-minute interview segments with Jones, who
asked the questions and stayed out
of frame during the interviews.
The roster itself was enough to
get people to tune in. Colin Powell, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Toni
Morrison and Al Sharpton were
a few of the bigger names on the
documentary.
But it was equally as remarkable to watch people like Thelma Golden, art curator for the
Whitney Museum, or Former
Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons talk about their experiences
as black Americans. All of these
various professionals experienced
struggle, diversity and triumph to
get where they are today.
This was a step in the right direction for Americans perception
of black culture because it showed
people talking without filters or
a CNN narrative that is dubbed
over the true voices of the struggles
happening in American cities.
If CNN’s “Black in America”
could be redone, they could take
some hints from HBO’s documentary.
When all is said, done and written, there will be a call to examine
the true history of the U.S. and
there is no better way to chronicle
it than through the voices of the
people who lived it.

October 6, 2008

Not in a swing state? Why bother voting?
By Christian brown

Daily Titan Staff Writer
opinion@dailytitan.com

On Nov. 4, millions of Americans
will proudly take the time to step
into the voting booth and elect the
next President of the United States.
Unfortunately, in many states, like
California, those votes mean absolutely nothing.
Since the general election began
in June, political pundits and analysts have reintroduced the American people to the infamous swing,
or battleground, states.
These states are unique as they
tend to waver between patterns of
voting for Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.
As a result, they can easily decide
who wins a presidential election.
Remember the 2000 presidential
election between then Vice-President Al Gore and Gov. George W.
Bush?
For 36 days after that election, the
country stood and watched as officials in Florida rummaged through
hanging chads on punch card ballots in order to determine who really
won the Sunshine State’s 25 electoral
votes.
In the end, Bush squeaked out
a victory and won the state by 537
votes. Like it or not, a mere 537
people chose the 43rd President of
the United States.
In 2004, the country faced a similar situation where yet another swing

state decided the presidential election in favor of the Republicans.
This time it was a win in Ohio
that allowed Bush to defeat Sen.
John Kerry by only 118,600 votes.
Could these past, narrow elections foreshadow what is to come on
Nov. 4?
It seems more likely than not.
Since the 2000 election, many
states have moved to
the center politically,
meaning the majority of voters tend to
agree on pivotal issues
while a minority resides
staunchly on the
right or the
left.
This moderate trend
divides the
political
map, creating
a handful of
battleground
states where the
people there become targets for
each campaign.
This year is no
different, as recent polls in the
states of Pennsylvania, Colorado,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia, Nevada, New Hampshire, Indiana, North Carolina,
Ohio and Florida all show Sen. John
McCain and Sen. Barack Obama in

a statistical tie.
On Election Day, these states will
ultimately decide who will win the
presidency.
Liberal and conservative states
such as California and Texas only
serve as a political base for their candidates by raising millions of dollars
that will go into television ads used
in the battleground states.

T h i s year alone,
California has raised nearly $53
million for Obama, which exceeds
contributions from any other state,

according to MSNBC.com.
Though the state of California has
donated generously to both campaigns, the candidates themselves
have not visited the state nearly as
often as they have Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado.
Just Monday, Obama campaigned
in Denver, while McCain rallied
supporters in Columbus.
Both understand that it is critical
to have these voters on their side.
One way to solidify support from
these voters is to choose a vice-presidential running mate that has appeal with the demographics in these
battleground states.
McCain and Obama both used
their running mates as an effort to
capture these swing voters.
Look at Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate.
His upbringing in Scranton,
Pa. and his ability to connect with
blue-collar voters in states like Ohio
and Michigan put him at the top of
Obama’s list.
Likewise, Gov. Sarah Palin’s conservative beliefs and small-town
values made her an instant celebrity
within the GOP and gave McCain
a short-lived lead over Obama in
national polls. With that, it’s simple
to determine who will win the 2008
presidential election.
No matter what happens in the decided states, who ever can convince
these battleground states in middle
America to vote for their ticket will
be the next commander-in-chief.

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Daily Titan Columnist

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Happy birthday Miley Cyrus, now wise up
Nobody does it bigger or better
than Miley Cyrus.
And, what’s a more perfect time of
your life to go big or go home than
your sixteenth birthday?
I don’t know why sweet 16 is as
big of a deal as it is.

If anything, 13 and 18 are more
monumental birthdays than 16.
You become an official teenager
at 13 and an official adult at 18
(though some 18-year-olds don’t act
like adults).
However, despite the importance
of both those years in our life, 16
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I remember my sweet 16 party. I
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Let me also add that my parents
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Parental humiliations aside, there
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Firstly, I had a cavity filled the day
before, and the dentist accidentally
hit a nerve. My cheeks were swollen
and bruised for the entirety of my
party.
Additionally, my mom ended up
walking in on one of my ex-boyfriends making out with my friend
in my bedroom. Needless to say, she
wasn’t my friend after that.
While my sweet 16 wasn’t so
sweet, I can’t say the same for a certain pop princess extraordinaire who
had a birthday bash at Disneyland
yesterday.
The thing that sets her party apart
from mine (aside from the fact that

she’s wealthy and famous) is that her
party had room for 5,000 guests, according to Disney’s official Web site.
Those guests also paid $250 just
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What’s also unique about this bash
is that it took place over a month before her actual birthday. I guess you
can never start celebrating too early.
That’s one thing I foresee a lot of
in Miley’s future – celebrating. I bet
that that girl knows how to have a
good time.
Unfortunately, I’m not saying this
in an “I think she’s so cool and want
to hang out with her” way.
If you knew me, you’d know
that Miley Cyrus is in my top three
young celebrities I don’t like – right
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While Montag is on a playing level all her own, I think that Hudgens
and Cyrus share a lot in common.
The main commonality they share
is their "sluttish" tendencies.
This week’s column is not about
Vanessa, though. I have to give her a
little more credit.
She hasn’t been making any scandalous headlines lately. I hope that
means she’s staying out of trouble.
Miley, on the other hand, is not
even 16 years old. The things she
does – dressing way more scantily

than I ever have or would, taking
provocative pictures of herself with
other girls/guys, and having provocative pictures taken of her (thank
you, Vanity Fair) – is not what a 15year-old should be doing.
Maybe I’m just old fashioned or
completely out of touch with the
way of the world these days. I just
think that Miley is not acting how
she should for her age.
For some reason, it gets under
my skin so much. I can’t stand her.
Or, maybe I just can’t stand how she
doesn’t admit to any wrongdoings.
Miley – I say go crazy when you’re
in your twenties if you want, but not
while you’re still illegal and in the
spotlight as much as you are – supposedly being a role model for young
children and a representative for the
ever-wholesome Disney.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it
again – Miley Cyrus is the next Britney Spears.
However, not the successful-popstar Britney Spears.
She’s the Britney who shaves off
her hair, wears a hot-pink wig and
tattered fishnet stockings everyday.
With that in mind, I’d like to raise
my glass to Miley Cyrus.
Happy birthday!
I look forward to the many crazy
headlines of yours that are bound to
come.

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October 6, 2008

Titans upset No. 23 Gauchos, 2-0 at Titan Stadium

IN OTHER NEWS
BASEBALL

Recruiting class ranked 14th in the nation

By John Klewer/For the Daily Titan
Freshman Caitlin Mellano takes a slide-tackle during the first half against UCSB. Cal State Fullerton freshman Janae Deas’ two goals led the Titans to a 2-0 victory over the
No. 23 Gauchos. The win improved the Titans record to 6-6-1 (1-1 in Big West) and dropped the Gauchos to 8-5 (1-1).

Tucson, Ariz. – Collegiate Baseball has ranked Cal State Fullerton’s
2009 recruiting class, the 14th-best
in the nation in its 26th annual
evaluation, announced today by the
Tucson-based publication.
This is the first recruiting class for
second-year Head Coach Dave Serrano and his coaching staff since the
regime change prior to the 2008 season. Serrano was the Titans’ recruiting coordinator from 1997-2004 as
an assistant to Titan skipper George
Horton.
“We are honored to be recognized
as having one of the top 15 recruiting classes in the nation,” Serrano
said.
The Titans, coming off a 41-22
season, are returning a strong core
of starters but have replenished the
squad with a fine crop of young men
primarily from the Southern California area.
Fullerton has brought in 19 players, six from junior colleges and 13
from the high school ranks, to vie for
one of the 35 roster spots in 2009.

Kyle Witten (Jr., RHP/INF, Bakersfield College), Tyler Pill (Fr.,
RHP/UTIL, Covina HS), Nick
Ramirez (Fr., LHP/1B, Katella HS),
Noe Ramirez (Fr., RHP/INF, Alhambra HS) and Kyle Mertins (Jr.,
RHP, Santa Ana College) headline
the 2009 class, all of whom bring
much needed pitching experience to
the table with the departure of the
Titans No. 1 and 2 starters as well as
a valuable reliever.
The Titans will be without Jeff
Kaplan, Cory Arbiso and Adam Jorgenson who combined for 25 wins
and over 265 innings during the
2008 season.
Arizona State earned was No. 1 in
the year’s rankings followed by Oregon, Vanderbildt and Ankansas.
Other West Coast teams in the top
40 ranking include: UCLA (6), defending national champions Fresno
State (10), Oregon State (12), USC
(16), UC Irvine (22), Stanford (26),
San Diego State (29), Pepperdine
(33), Long Beach State (39) and Cal
State Northridge (t-40).
StorY courtesy of Titan Media Relations

Huskies defense shuts out men’s team at home
Daily Titan Sports Writer
sports@dailytitan.com

The Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team came up short again in Saturday’s matchup with Houston Baptist, losing 1-0 at Titan Stadium.
The lone goal of the game came
on 20-yard shot after a long dribble
by Huskies forward Ruzhdi Halili in
the first half.
The Titans had chances to score all
night, outshooting the Huskies 17-4.
After getting their goal, the Huskies
(4-3) sat back and played more defenders in the backfield, making it

difficult for the Titans (3-8) to get times.”
any good shots. Titan sophomore
Alvarez finished the game with
forward Celso Althree shots, one
varez said this has
on target.
been typical of the
The only goal
games they have
of the game came
played this season.
when Halili broke
“Every game we
away from the Tihave opportunities,
tans’ defense and
we just don’t capihad a strike inside
talize on them,” Althe box, getting
– Bob Ammann, it just past Titan
varez said. “We always outshoot the
goalkeeper Kevin
CSUF Head Coach
teams but can’t get
Puder.
goals. We were get“Everybody got
ting inside on them, we just couldn’t caught forward on a corner kick
put any in. We hit the post a few and unfortunately they got behind

“

...it was important not to give up
an early goal, and
unfortunately that is
exactly what we did.

“

By Raj Modha

us, got on a break away and had a
decent angle and he put it where I
couldn’t get to it,” Puder said.
Titan Head Coach Bob Ammann
said that the goal was due to a missed
assignment by a Titan defender.
“It starts with the frustration on
how we let in the goal from our offensive corner. We had someone in
there that it was only (in) his second
game because of Matt Sanders being
out. Unfortunately he made a mistake and I’m sure he regrets it. It is
something we need to get taken care
of,” Ammann said.
The Huskies played a physical
game, consistently knocking the Ti-

tan players to the ground and picking up yellow cards throughout the
match. The Huskies had six yellow
cards to the Titans’ one.
The Titans were in Huskies territory most of the game, but they
could not convert any of the chances
for goals. Several shots bounced off
the crossbar, but it was the closest
they would get all night.
“We had them figured out. We
dominated the ball and game. We
just need to improve on the finishing product,” Puder said.
Ammann said the result was like
others this season.
“It was similar to some of the

games we have seen already this year.
UNLV is a perfect example,” Ammann said. “We told the guys going
into the game they were going to
make it difficult for us offensively, so
it was important not to give up an
early goal, and unfortunately that’s
exactly what we did.”
The Titans have about half the
season to right the ship as the team
is 0-1 in conference play and its remaining games are all against Big
West opponents.
The Titans will next play a conference game against UC Davis on
Wednesday at 7:00 pm at Titan Stadium.